Dams and hydraulic Engineering (Hydro-electric power plant)
- Client: VOEnergies Production SA
- Assignment: Feasibility study, general design, bathymetry, geotechnical mission, preliminary design, project design, concession request, tenders, project execution, construction management
- Completion date: 2008 – 2013
- Total cost of the assignment: 700k CHF
- Total cost of work: 10,000k CHF
PROJECT DESCRIPTION AND CHARACTERISTICS
The project involved the reconstruction of the existing dam and the creation of a new hydroelectric plant to replace the existing 3 turbines in the buildings of the former ROD Mills.
The new “dam- plant” includes a movable dam with a damper, a hydroelectric plant and a water intake:
- Number of groups: 2 type “S” turbines with horizontal axis
- Exploitable fall: 6.1 m
- Flow rate: 21.6 m³ / s
- Total installed power: 1 MW
- Average annual production: 4.22 GWh
- Fish lift: concrete tower, height 14 m
- Fish displacement device integrated into the factory grid
- Moving dam: 2 passes
- Largeur x hauteur : 5.1m x 3.6m
- Type de vanne : vannes clapets
ASSIGNMENT
GEOS Ingénieurs Conseils completed the project management, including the feasibility study, the bathymetry, the geotechnical study as analysis related to fish migration.